1/R gravity and Scalar-Tensor Gravity
Abstract
We point out that extended gravity theories, the Lagrangian of which is an arbitrary function of scalar curvature R, are equivalent to a class of the scalar tensor theories of gravity. The corresponding gravity theory is ω=0 Brans-Dicke gravity with a potential for the Brans-Dicke scalar field, which is not compatible with solar system experiments if the field is very light: the case when such modifications are important recently.
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